Lesson Plans: Questions
ESL lesson plans for teachers of the English language. Check out our collection of lesson plans filed under the 'Questions' grammar topic.
Basic Questions about Animals
Easy questions practice on the topic of animals, including animal vocabulary games.
Business English Questions- Brainstorming
Brainstorming typical questions to use with business contacts, including meeting for the first time and again
Business English- Choose the Best Job Interview Responses
Good and bad answers to typical job interview questions, including generalising good tactics and looking at different ways that those questions are often asked.
Constructing question tags card and coin games
Putting words together to make tag questions personalised speaking practice
Describing Festivals and Celebrations Subject Questions Practice
Asking and answering object and subject questions about festivals and celebrations speaking, with subject questions grammar presentation and names of important festivals and celebrations.
Direct and Indirect Questions- Simplest Responses Game
An easy and fun introduction to embedded questions through a quick reactions game and common small talk questions.
Good and Bad- Subject Questions Speaking Game
A fun choosing suitable subject questions for small talk and avoiding too personal subject questions speaking activity, including a subject questions grammar presentation.
Good and taboo questions about your company and job
Small talk on your work practice, including taboo questions and topics to avoid
Good and Taboo- Countable and Uncountable Questions
Students rank, ask, answer and make good, so-so and unsuitable count and non-count personal questions, for grammar and cultural awareness practice, with suitable countable and uncountable noun questions for real-life speaking.
How Many Are There- Trivia Quiz
Easy general knowledge questions with fun ways of reacting quickly like slapping number cards, also good practice of quickly reading number words.
How Many Are There? Speaking Games
Four fun there are + numbers games, including guessing, competing and finding things in common, with suggested "How many" questions.
How Questions and Answers- The Same or Different Simplest Responses Game
Synonyms and common confusions with small talk questions with how, starting with a fun quick reactions game, and ending with brainstorming.
How Questions- Dice Games
Three fun small talk questions with how dice games, including the most typical question starters, question endings, and answers, including ranking strong and weak positive and negative adjectives in answers.
How Questions- Gapfill Guessing Game
Common words in small talk how questions and answers guessing game, including key words and tricky points like prepositions and determiners.
How Questions- Practice Roleplays
Realistic small questions with how situations to roleplay, followed by a different how questions presentation.
How Questions- Simplest Responses
The two different kinds of how questions review, including a simple presentation game.
Learning and Using English- Extended Speaking with Subject Questions
Students ask questions after hearing their partner's monologues on language learning, then analyse those questions for the form and meaning of subject questions - also good for learner training.
Meeting People and Small Talk Yes/No Questions Games
Practising closed question formation through typical questions for social situations such as yes/ no questions for starting conversations, ending with students trying to remember the questions they just used, plus an optional coin game.
Names of Jobs- Subject Questions Quiz
Students practise both subject questions and a wide range of jobs people do vocabulary by setting each other easy quiz questions, then try to remember how suffixes are used to make job nouns.
Positive and negative question tags
Students use double-sided cards to try to make true example sentences with negative question tags and negative sentences with positive tag questions, and compare them to making yes/ no questions.
Questions about Daily Routines- Mix and Match
Actions you do every day vocabulary mixing activities.